The Faculty Corner:
Teaching Students With Disabilities

This faculty page is dedicated to understanding and teaching students with disabilities and includes the following:

  1. Policy for the Accommodation of Students with Disabilities (includes procedural information) [Adobe Acrobat format]

     

  2. Advising Students with Disabilities
  3. Disability Statement for Your Syllabus
    • As you prepare your syllabi for each semester, please remember to add a disability access statement. Please use the following statement so that students with disabilities are directed to Student Disability Services in the Counseling Center, and appropriate documentation can be gathered regarding the need for accommodations.
    • "Students with disabilities who believe they may need an accommodation in this class are encouraged to contact Monica Kersting, Director of Counseling and Student Disability Services at 299-3514, Academy 106 as soon as possible to ensure that accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion."
  4. The Faculty Room: Accommodation Strategies (link) - http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/Strategies
    • Disability Type - explanations of various disabilities and accommodation strategies
    • Academic Activity - strategies for working with students who are disabled
    • Universal Design - design of instructional materials and activities that makes the learning goals achievable by individuals with wide differences in their abilities to see, hear, speak, move, read, write, understand English, attend, organize, engage, and remember
  5. Tools for Teaching (link) - http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/disabilities.html
  6. Additional Tools/Information/Resources
  7. Resources Available on Concordia's Campus
 

This page created and maintained by Keith Landa
Publication date: 16 November 2003
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